Why Are Millennials Depressed? Don’t They Have It Easy?
Depression among millennials is a byproduct of the overlap in generations and generational ideas, added with the social pressures and hyperactive consumerism.
By Sean Clarke
Why are millennials depressed? Don’t they have it easier than every generation before them? They have smartphones, on demand TV, Facebook, and cheap fast food.
This is the argument that those from previous generations sometimes make. It would seem that millennials (anyone who was born in the mid-eighties) have never had life easier. There is so much opportunity out there for them. In reality, this is not always the case. In fact, if you ask any millennial, they’ll probably tell you the opposite — that they have got it hard. I write this as a millennial. I do not write it for sympathy or help, but from an inside point of view. I write it as someone who sees a huge number of other millennials struggling to ‘get ahead’ in a world that wants to take more and more from us.
This is a subject that I am personally living right now, and more importantly, is a subject that needs to be talked about, because of the rising numbers of depression and anxiety.
